UCLA Buildings
Jackie Robinson's jersey number is displayed prominently at this
UCLA facility.
What is Pauley Pavilion?
This UCLA basketball player and civil rights activist won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and has written books on activism, including On the Shoulders of Giants.
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
Founded in 1969, this Center for Afro-American Studies (CAAS), was renamed after Nobel Prize winner, scholar, activist, and UCLA alumnus Ralph J. Bunche in 2003, in commemoration of the centenary of his birth.
What is The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies?
This person spoke at the base of Janss Steps in April 1965, just one month after his historic Selma to Montgomery march.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This scholarship provides financial support to first-year medical
students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
The Lacey E. Wyatt Legacy Scholarship
This residence hall is named after a former UCLA student body president and activist who fought for diversity and civil rights.
What is the De Neve Holly Robinson Hall?
A UCLA graduate, she was the first Black woman to win a gold medal in Olympic gymnastics in 1996.
Who is Dominique Dawes?
This program is a partnership between UCLA and Howard University and is funded by UCOP through the UC-HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Initiative. It is a six-week summer research program helps undergraduate students to develop empirical research methods and coding skills, while preparing students to apply to graduate programs.
What is the Sawyer Summer Institute?
This organization is dedicated to serving all Black students, staff and faculty at UCLA was formed in 1966. The organization’s founding was influenced by the increase in student activism brought on by the Civil Rights movement.
What is the Afrikan Student Union (ASU)?
This annual UCLA festival, held on Memorial Day, celebrates jazz, reggae, and cultural enrichment while bringing together students and the
greater Los Angeles community.
What is JazzReggae Fest?
This UCLA building houses the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, named after the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is Haines Hall?
Known as "The Greatest," this UCLA track and field star broke barriers as the first African American to win an Olympic decathlon gold medal in 1960 and was a co-founder of the Special Olympics after their athletic career.
Who is Rafer Johnson?
A visual icon of the black student experience at UCLA came out of a violent moment in American history. On Monday, May 4, 1970 students at Kent State College, in Ohio, were protesting the Vietnam War and the invasion of Cambodia. Four students, protesters and bystanders, were killed by members of the Ohio National Guard. These killings sparked protests and a massive student strike at colleges across the United States.
What is the Black Experience Mural?
This couple, both of whom were UCLA doctors, took part in the historic civil rights Freedom Rides.
They were one of the few married couples who participated in the Freedom Rides. Arriving in Mississippi they were arrested and charged with breach of peace.
They were sent to Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Penitentiary where they spent 40 days in a maximum security prison.
UCLA’s 1961-1962 student council voted to use student body funds to pay UCLA Freedom Riders’ appeal bonds, but were blocked by a rule forbidding the use of these funds for political reasons.
UCLA faculty members stepped in to raise the needed amount. Three months after their release, the federal government ordered that the buses be desegregated.
Who are The Singletons?
The first Black interim chancellor at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA)
Who is Darnell Hunt